Discovery Box| (0.50) | 1Sa 7:9 |
| So Samuel took a nursing lamb 1 and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him. |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 8:22 |
| The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say 1 and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 9:9 |
| (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.) |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 9:20 |
| Don’t be concerned 1 about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” 2 |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 9:21 |
| Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 11:2 |
| But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 11:3 |
| The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 13:5 |
| For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000 1 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 13:13 |
| Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed 1 the commandment that the Lord your God gave 2 you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever! |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 14:39 |
| For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything. 1 |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 14:40 |
| Then he said to all Israel, “You will be on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other side.” The army replied to Saul, “Do whatever you think is best.” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 14:47 |
| After Saul had secured his royal position over Israel, he fought against all their 1 enemies on all sides – the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. In every direction that he turned he was victorious. 2 |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 15:26 |
| Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 15:28 |
| Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you! |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 15:30 |
| Saul 1 again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 15:35 |
| Until the day he 1 died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 17:52 |
| Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. 1 They chased the Philistines to the valley 2 and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron. |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 18:18 |
| David said to Saul, “Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father 1 in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 23:11 |
| Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!” Then the Lord said, “He will come down.” |
| (0.50) | 1Sa 23:17 |
| He said to him, “Don’t be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this.” |
